We invite essays on the diasporic implications of multiracial andmulticultural characters and their hybrid cultural consciousness inAfro-Caribbean and Indo-Caribbean texts. The site of the diasporic culturesmay be in the Caribbean itself or in transnational locationsin theMetropole or in the various sites of migration common to Caribbean nationals.

In spite of a large presence of Indo-Caribbeans, works by authors comingout of the Caribbeanother than a few well known names, such asNaipaul--rarely reflect their experiences. When we do read availableliterature, it focuses on ideas of cultural hybridity or créolité andcreolization in separate racialized spaces. When interracial mixing isrepresented, it is usually between White and Black characters. Inpostcolonial and transnational locations, we are still struggling withideas regarding the fear of miscegenation or construction of colonialdesire in Black and White terms. When Albert Memmi in The Colonizer andThe Colonized and Frantz Fanon in Black Skin, White Mask bring up racialmixing in terms of racial hybridity, it is between a Black man and a Whitewoman, or between a Black woman and a White man. Where is the literaturethat reflects collaborations and interethnic mixings in sexual and culturalterms in the contemporary period? For example, in Gurinder Chadha's Bhajion the Beach, for the first time, an Afro-Caribbean man and an Indian womanin the UK are romantically and sexually linked in British cinema. For thisanthology, the focus on race will not be simply the one traditionallyassociated with Caribbean writings, but will, hopefully treat interactionsof Caribbean personages of African and Indian ancestry and cultures as inEarl Lovelace's The Dragon Can't Dance. Additionally, seldom do we readliterature by Indo-Caribbean women writers, nor do we hear voices of GL/Q(Gay, Lesbians, and Queer) community. What is lacking in CaribbeanLiterature is voices from the margins and those especially tackling racial,ethnic and sexual hybridity and intra-racial collaboration orconflicts. Caribbean literature is typically read as Afro-Caribbeanliterature, with a few Indo-Caribbean voices thrown in the mix to make itinteresting. What this project hopes to accomplish is the showcasing ofliterature reflecting the merging and intermingling of racialized voiceslocating hybridized identities in the interstices of Afro-Caribbean andIndo-Caribbean literarily landscape. How are the two diasporas shared andcommingled, reflecting historical and cultural roots of each in literatureof hybridity, racial and inter-ethnic as well as cultural?

The editors are prominent writers in the area of postcolonial and immigrantliterature, and would be appreciative of reading any manuscripts whichmight fulfill stated vision in the collection. All essays will be refereedby independent scholars in the field of Caribbean Literature.

Please send one-page abstracts along with a completed 20 page paper to<mailto:trose_at_nmu.edu>trose_at_nmu.edu or<mailto:jsingh_at_nmu.edu>jsingh_at_nmu.edu by the end of May, 2006. Pleaseindicate Title, Name and Affiliation of author. We will notify you by theend of August as to the selection of your essay for the collection.